To:G. D. LEITEISEN

Published:First published in 1931 inLenin Miscellany XVI.

      Sent from Geneva to Paris.

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      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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Itis impossible to get an Organising Committee credential for you to
deliver greetings to the
congress.[2]I thought at first that our congress would open by April 22
and that it would issue you a credential, hut that did not work out; our
congress is being
			       delayed.[1]You can say you are speaking for the Editorial Board ofVperyodand deliver greetings to the congress in its name, andthroughit,
in the name of the R.S.D.L.P. That will be the best.

Theitem about Martov’s lies is going
in.[3]Write from the congress.

Yours,V. Ulyanov

P.S.InNeue ZeitNo. 29 Kautsky again told a pack of lies
aboutVperyodandIskra![4]It would be a good thing for you to “correct” him
in your speech at the congress.

[1]TheThird Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. opened on April 12 (25),
1905.—Ed.

[2]Thereference is to the Congress of the French Socialists held April
23–25, 1905, in Paris, at which the followers of Guesde and Jaurès
united.

[3]Thisrefers to Y. 0. Martov’s article “A Party Congress or a Congress
of Groups?” inIskraNo. 94, March 25, 1905. In it Martov held up
the Guesdists as an example to the “Leninists”, falsely asserting that
the Guesdists had recourse to mediation by Bebel and the German
Social-Democrats. Leiteisen replied to Martov in an item entitled “A
Slight Correction!” inVperyodNo. 15, April 20 (7).

[4]Kautsky’sarticle “Die Differenzen unter den russischen Sozialisten”,
published inDie Neue ZeitNo. 29, was printed in Russian
translation inIskraNo. 97 under the heading “The Differences
Between Russian Socialists”. The article said: “... there are no
revisionists in the Russian party.... He (Lenin.—Ed.) stands for
strict centralism and dictatorial rights for the Central Committee, while
Axelrod and his friends want to give more leeway for the activity of the
local committees.”